Students’ perceptions on the recognition of holistic competency achievement: A systematic mixed studies review

Chan, Cecilia Ka Yuk; Chen, Siaw Wee

doi:10.1016/j.edurev.2021.100431

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“…There are challenges from both instructors' and students' perspectives on incorporating professional skills development into curricula (Chan et al, 2017; Chan & Chen, 2022). Instructors perceive a lack of institutional support, professional development for how to teach these skills, and a rapidly changing labor market and needs (Chan et al, 2017).…”

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“…In Asia, for example, the most important outcome of a student's education is academic knowledge, rather than whole‐person development, which encourages students to focus on building skills that they will be graded on (Chan et al, 2017). However, there are ways to incentivize students to invest time developing their professional skills, including certificates, badges, and digital credentials (Chan & Chen, 2022). Students who develop professional skills report higher confidence in job attainment (Flaherty et al, 2017).…”

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What engineering employers want: An analysis of technical and professional skills in engineering job advertisements

Fleming,

Klopfer,

Katz

et al. 2024

J of Engineering Edu

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BackgroundEngineering curricula are built around faculty and accreditors' perceptions of what knowledge, skills, and abilities graduates will need in engineering careers. However, the people making these decisions may not be fully aware of what industry employers require for engineering graduates.Purpose/HypothesisThe purpose of this study is to determine how industry employer‐sought professional and technical skills vary among engineering disciplines and levels of education.Design/MethodUsing a large sample (n = 26,103) of mined job advertisements, we use the O*NET skills database to determine the frequencies of different professional and technical skills for biomedical, civil, chemical, electrical, environmental, and mechanical engineers with bachelor's, master's, and PhD degrees.ResultsThe most frequently sought professional skill is problem‐solving; the most frequently sought technical skills across disciplines are Microsoft Office software and computer‐aided design software. Although not the most frequently requested skills, job advertisements including the Python and MATLAB programming languages paid significantly higher salaries than those without.ConclusionsThe findings of this study have important implications for engineering program leaders and curriculum designers choosing which skills to teach students so that they are best prepared to get and excel in engineering jobs. The results also show which skills students can prioritize investing their time in so that they receive the largest financial return on their investment.

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Section: Literature Reviewmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Literature Reviewmentioning

confidence: 99%

What engineering employers want: An analysis of technical and professional skills in engineering job advertisements

Fleming,

Klopfer,

Katz

et al. 2024

J of Engineering Edu

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“…As denoted antecedently, linking a solid learning environment and rapport -as depicted in Figure 1 -can range from minor tweaks to a differentiated staging device adapted to environmental variables and learner background requirements. When conveying holistic skills, it may be necessary to analyse misconceptions about a learner's professional development priorities and competency acknowledgment insufficiencies in order for a proper learner's profile to flourish (Chan and Chen, 2022).…”

Section: Teacher-student Bonds As a Moulding Communication Skills Factormentioning

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Writing-reading accomplishments onto underlying gaps and bonds as prone to communication skills follow-up

Olmos¹,

Garcı́a²

2023

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This study aimed to look into the impact of educational practices on the reading and writing skills of learners, with a specific focus on the gaps and bonds in EFL learning while communication skills carried follow-ups. The study employed a mixed methodology, which embraced communication contexts placed in the teaching process, and self-perceptions of the participants in a multidimensional communication axis to collect data via surveys, observational forms and exploratory statistics. The results indicate that while there is a stable level of variation in terms of reading and writing achievement, there are setbacks in certain areas such as fill-in-the-blank questions in complex activities and sentence rewriting tasks. Additionally, the study found that providing students with picture clues can improve their performance. The study also suggests that blending both reading and writing skills in activities can lead to large linkages and improvements in performance.

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“…When conveying holistic skills, it may be necessary to analyse misconceptions about a learner's professional development priorities and competency acknowledgment insufficiencies in order for a proper learner's profile to flourish [68].…”

Section: Teacher-student Bonds As a Moulding Communication Skills Factormentioning

confidence: 99%

Writing-reading attainments onto underlying gaps and bonds as prone to communication skills follow-up

Olmos

Garcia

2023

Preprint

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Students’ perceptions on the recognition of holistic competency achievement: A systematic mixed studies review

Cited by 17 publications

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What engineering employers want: An analysis of technical and professional skills in engineering job advertisements

What engineering employers want: An analysis of technical and professional skills in engineering job advertisements

Writing-reading accomplishments onto underlying gaps and bonds as prone to communication skills follow-up

Writing-reading attainments onto underlying gaps and bonds as prone to communication skills follow-up

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